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So you refuse to hang out with any of the millions of Reddit users because some of them laughed at you for not knowing what tl;dr meant?

by mokash 14y ago

jlgreco 14y ago
I suspect his issue is with their attitude towards anything longer than a soundbite, not that they laughed because he didn't know what it meant.
- jvrossb 14y ago
  I think the comment you replied to is trying to point out that it's not representative of the millions of redditors out there.
  - jlgreco 14y ago
    Only a small fraction of whom, the self identified or self evident redditors, he would avoid. Chances are many people I hang out with use 4chan, but I avoid people that I can tell use 4chan. The reason is that these classifiers, unlike so many others, can be used as indicators of behaviour or attitude.
leoedin 14y ago
I think the issue is with self-identifying redditors. I've been merrily using Reddit since 2007, but I wouldn't go to a Reddit meetup. Why? Because the "Reddit" culture is one I don't particularly find interesting. It centres around bad in jokes, immaturity and sexism. There are definitely interesting parts of Reddit, but for me (and I'd imagine others) the culture which some users (unfortunately the loudest) identify with as being "Reddit" is quite immature and tedious. Perhaps at one point Reddit was a shared interest which could lead to interesting conversations, but for quite some time the size of the community (and its spread in topics) means that the only shared interest of redditors (judging from the front page right now) is memes and funny pictures. TL;DR The millions of Reddit users you'd actually want to hang out with probably wouldn't turn up to a Reddit meetup.
- philh 14y ago
  FWIW, I agree with you about the reddit culture, but the reddit meetups I've been to have been great. (I've been to a few in Bristol and recently two in London; admittedly the latter of those was not at a good venue for talking to people, and the former was supposedly an event which isn't much like many other London reddit events.) Presumably it varies a lot from region to region. Like subreddits, but harder to subscribe to.
- mokash 14y ago
  The trick is to filter out Reddit and start subscribing to the better sub-reddits such as TrueReddit and any other ones that you might find interesting e.g. I'm learning Java so I subscribed to the Java sub-reddit, the programming one, computer science one, computer science jobs etc. All really interesting sub-reddits with lots of serious conversations and a healthy lack of cats and sexism.
- bangbang 14y ago
  "Reddit users" is akin to saying "internet users"... Sure many people think of steve urkil, but anyone with depth realizes that the "culture" is wide and varying.

So you refuse to hang out with any of the millions of Reddit users because some of them laughed at you for not knowing what tl;dr meant?

by mokash 14y ago

So you refuse to hang out with any of the millions of Reddit users because some of them laughed at you for not knowing what tl;dr meant?

jlgreco 14y ago

I suspect his issue is with their attitude towards anything longer than a soundbite, not that they laughed because he didn't know what it meant.

jvrossb 14y ago
I think the comment you replied to is trying to point out that it's not representative of the millions of redditors out there.
- jlgreco 14y ago
  Only a small fraction of whom, the self identified or self evident redditors, he would avoid. Chances are many people I hang out with use 4chan, but I avoid people that I can tell use 4chan. The reason is that these classifiers, unlike so many others, can be used as indicators of behaviour or attitude.

leoedin 14y ago

I think the issue is with self-identifying redditors. I've been merrily using Reddit since 2007, but I wouldn't go to a Reddit meetup. Why? Because the "Reddit" culture is one I don't particularly find interesting. It centres around bad in jokes, immaturity and sexism. There are definitely interesting parts of Reddit, but for me (and I'd imagine others) the culture which some users (unfortunately the loudest) identify with as being "Reddit" is quite immature and tedious. Perhaps at one point Reddit was a shared interest which could lead to interesting conversations, but for quite some time the size of the community (and its spread in topics) means that the only shared interest of redditors (judging from the front page right now) is memes and funny pictures. TL;DR The millions of Reddit users you'd actually want to hang out with probably wouldn't turn up to a Reddit meetup.

philh 14y ago
FWIW, I agree with you about the reddit culture, but the reddit meetups I've been to have been great. (I've been to a few in Bristol and recently two in London; admittedly the latter of those was not at a good venue for talking to people, and the former was supposedly an event which isn't much like many other London reddit events.) Presumably it varies a lot from region to region. Like subreddits, but harder to subscribe to.
mokash 14y ago
The trick is to filter out Reddit and start subscribing to the better sub-reddits such as TrueReddit and any other ones that you might find interesting e.g. I'm learning Java so I subscribed to the Java sub-reddit, the programming one, computer science one, computer science jobs etc. All really interesting sub-reddits with lots of serious conversations and a healthy lack of cats and sexism.
bangbang 14y ago
"Reddit users" is akin to saying "internet users"... Sure many people think of steve urkil, but anyone with depth realizes that the "culture" is wide and varying.